From ABCNet: Funding plea to make dinosaur site safe
A western Queensland council says it does not have the capacity to fix a building over world-renowned dinosaur site, Lark Quarry near Winton, and it will need state or federal support.
Lark Quarry is known as the only recorded dinosaur stampede on Earth, with thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back about 95 million years.
Winton Mayor Ed Warren says the site has been closed because of concerns about a building constructed over the footprints.
He says safety needs to be guaranteed for the thousands of people who visit.
"It is somewhere in the vicinity of 12 or 13,000 [visitors] per year," he said.
"We believe those numbers will grow, hence we should be doing something about this building now and the infrastructure that is there, rather than leave it until some actual event happens and the wall falls in.
"That could be this national monument lost forever."
He says it is too early to say when the conservation park will reopen.
"These are the sorts of things we need to discuss with [the] State Government in particular, form a partnership with them and probably move onto the Federal Government," he said.
"Because this is a national icon and we don't have the capacity to carry forward what needs to happen to that building.
"The soil and the rock that's there is very fragile and it needs to be preserved."
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